boys' love
Meanings
noun
- a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters; yaoi
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Etymology
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from boys + love.
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